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More and more companies are turning to Agile to improve their project success rates, and Scrum is the most popular method. Yet it's a challenge to find candidates with a legitimate Scrum background. How do you find people who are going to move your company forward?

Virtual Scrum boards can be useful for teams, and maybe even absolutely essential for distributed teams. That aside, this post is about giving the physical Scrum board its 15 minutes of fame and outlining why I prefer using one.

Transformation calls for a remarkable effort in tolerating and managing the effects caused by change in the structure of the firm, behavior of the team members, dynamics of the team, reciprocal action of the stakeholders, process implementation, and tool usage.

A number of Agile frameworks and technical practices can be combined for the successful implementation of Agile projects. But before an organization gets to the point of combining frameworks, it must be ready to learn and sometimes even fail in the process of learning.

The only people in the entire organization who have up-to-date information on the product domain and the technical domain, and who know who is doing which work now, are the experts on the team. This is at the heart of reducing chaos in product delivery.